Every body drags its shadow, and every mind its doubt.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

There is a spectacle more grand than the sea; it is heaven; there is a spectacle more grand than heaven; it is the conscience.

All animals are to be found in men and each of theme exists in some man, sometimes several at the time.

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man.

What was more needed by this old man who divided the leisure hours of his life, where he had so little leisure, between gardening in the daytime, and contemplation at night? Was not this narrow enclosure, with the sky for a background, enough to enable him to adore God in his most beautiful as well as in his most sublime works? Indeed, is not that all, and what more can be desired? A little garden to walk, and immensity to reflect upon. At his feet something to cultivate and gather; above his head something to study and meditate upon: a few flowers on the earth, and all the stars in the sky.